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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-31
-Just received from Boston

an immense stock of the genu-
inc Knight OF Labor Shoes,
which we are selling at $3.50
and So. Warranted solid cali
leather. Clauss & Bro, the
Tailors, sole agents for Carbon
county. Our stock of hand
made shoes cannot be beat by
any dealer in the county.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-31

THE BOSS THAT BEATS THEM ALL.
Why is the Davis called the Boss Machine9
For the simple reason that it does the work so
much better than other machines-as the work.
manship of "boss" or a master mechanic Is
superior to that of an apprentice. Just as the
"boss" is supposed to do things better than the
common workman, so the Davis" machine does
all kinds Of work in manner entirely unattain-
able by any other machine-hence the common
expression so often heard-"It's the Boss Ma
chine that beats them ALL"
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List Of Letters

Remaining uncalled for in the Lehighton
Post-office for month ending Dec. 81, 1887
Baltz, Harrison Nicholas, Gems
David, Vester Rex, John q. Sr.
David, Charles Smeath, Charles
Trambahr. Nathan Trump, John b.
Graver, Edward Wehr Wilson r.
Miller, Miss Mary A. Weiss, Ellen
Miller, Franklin WHARF, Mrs. Sarah
Persons calling for any Of rhe above let.
ters will please say advertised"
JAMES P. SMITH, P. NJ.
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Original Cheap Cash Store" !"
AAapPy1NovYsar
oSTO ALLQe
oSTo ALLQe

Not being ungrateful, on en-
tering into a new year, we de-
sire to return thanks for the
liberal patronage bestowed upon
us in the past, and trust we may
merit a continuance of the same
by constantly striving to supply
the wants Of our patrons in the
most satisfactory manner.
]. r. NUSBAUM,
Opposite Public Square, Bank Street, LehIghton.
June 7. 1ssl-1y.
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Geo. v. NlSbaln. Aren't,
Bank Street, Lehighton.
The Carbon Advocate
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1887.

CPE6IAL NOTICE Persons making payments
~ to this Office by money orders or postal notes
will please make them payable at the WEISS
PORT POST OFFICE, as the Lehighton Office is
NOT money order Office
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The Monroe county teachers institute
in session At StroudsburE thls week. is said
to have been unusually successful.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-31


tee, VIM. Miller.
Campbell, the Bank street jeweler,
having secured the services of fine ten and
a half pound boy is ready to fill all orders
promptly.
We regret being called on to chronicle
the Illness Of our old and esteemed friend
Lewis Weiss, of Northampton street.
Watches, clocks and all kinds of Jewell
ry repaired cheaply. neatly and promptly
at the Weissport Jewelry Store.
Sunday school people will find bar.
gains in Books by an early call at f. F,
Luckenbachs. Mauch Chunk.
Ed. Rehrig has been successfully man.
ipula'lng the spigot at the Carbon House
bar during the past week.
John Cough, a prominent WilkesbarrC
politician suicided Tuesday. No cause is
assigned for the rash act.
"A new stock of clocks watches anG
jewerly for sale at Hagaman's store Banl
street, Lehighton Pa. 3m.
The school directors and town counci
assemble in regular monthly meeting OF
Monday evening.
-Repairing promptly attended to anC
satisfaction guaranteed NJ the Weisspor
Jewelry Store.
Fifty prisoners are at present confined
in the Lehigh county jail, seven of WHOM
are women.
} The borough ordinance demands tina
you clean your payements. Dye under
stand.
Two Italians were arrested at Bethls
, hem recently for passing counterfeit coin
--"Watch meeting" will be observed 4
, the several churches Saturday night.
Our public schools open Tuesday afte
: = weeks vacation.
-Washington's biz thday VIII be the mex
{ legal holiday.
Court eonvenes a, Maueh Chunk, Nor
4. day week.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18
The Highest Church in E,rone.

The very highest church in Europe
is the pilgrimage chapel of the St.
Maria de Ziteit, above Salux, in the
canton of Graubunden. 1t lies 2,434
meters above the sea level
nearly 5000 feet high above
the forest, near the limits
of perpetual snow. It is only open
during the summer time Of that region
or, as the folk thereabouts reckon,
from st. John the Bartist's day to ST.
Michael's day-and is used only by the
Alp herders, who remain there through
the summer with their cows and goats,
and occasionally by hunters in search
of the chamois and marmot All the
inhabitants of Salux climb up thither
on midsummer days to assist at the first
mass and to hear the first sermon of the
year, and there is also crowded CON
gregation on Michael-mass day, at the
last service of the year. From time
to time few stray pilgrims from the
Graubunden Oberland and the Tvrol
find their way there. The second
highest church probably in Europe,
that OF Monstein, also open in the sum
mer, belongs to Graubunden. At our
visit the hale old preacher had five
foreign tourists for his congregation.
Bll1llner TdgJlaN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

A MICHIGAN man, who has travelled
abroad and more especially in Holland,
was heard to say in conversation the
other day that Americans had but little
idea to what extent their products and
inventions were in use there. "Do you
know he remarked, chat when I was
admitted to the apartments of the king
in the royal palace at Amsterdam, l
passed through door hung on brass
hinges and secured by o brass lock
coming from q Massachusetts, manu-
factory? Near by was a very comfort
able-looking and neat upholstered
Grand Rapids chair, with cuspidor at
the left, the product Of a Baltimore
factory. Over the mantel, designed by
an American, hung landscape by
Thomas Moran of Philadelphia, and on
it, among other ornaments, q Colorado
stag vase and o box of Michigan tooth
picks"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18
We Are discovered.

Spain proposes to celebrate the quar-
tre-centenary of the discovery of Amer
lea. don't know what that word
means, but it has a good, handmade
look. 1t is an event worth celebrating
anyhow, more on account of what we
have than for what Christopher found.
When he landed G. Columbus Found
the people with no clothes on; Found
them dressed like Lydia Thompson;
Dressed for going to the opera. Now
they undress more than ever, But it
costs much more to do so; Costs like
smoke to put on nothing. Then he
found the people painted, Hinged and
streaked from heel to eyebrow; Now
they paint above the shoulders, But it
costs as much as ever. Then the young
men smeared their bodies; Now the
young men paint the town red. Then
he found the maids assembled, Waiting
on the sandy seashore; Waiting for the
Spanish sailors. Now, as ever thew
are waiting. Giddy Girls and anxious
"mommers, !" Ever waiting on the sea-
shore; Waiting for the men to find
them, Eager still to be discovered:
Anxious that they may be sought for
by strange men from foreign countries.
Then Columbus found the natives Free
aud easy with their ducats, GLADLY Civ
ing to the strangers All the Doodle thev
had room for. Still to-day the foreign
raider scoops their dollars by the hat
full; Oscar Wilde and Good-by Patti,
Wilson "Tuy," and Canon Farrar,
Donkey, Song Bird, Tough, and Par
son, Reap alike golden harvest. Gone
are all Columbus Injuns, Gone the
corper-colored maidens, Gone the
dusky squaw and sachems. But their
children still survive them; Living
longer than their fathers; We have
learned another chapter; We've had
time to let our beard grow; We have
lately cut our eye teeth; And although
we may seem simple In the presence of
the stranger, Yet he wants to keep his
eye peeled When we're dealing from
the bottom; Turning jacks at times un-
wonted; Yet he wants to come in Win
ter, When the earth with frost is bak-
ing An +hA mercury is Freezing, If
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18
Spurious Archaeological Artists.

A regular gang OF manufacturers of
spurious archaeological articles has re-.
Gently been convicted in the Canton of
Neufchatel, whose scholars had long
complained of the frauds practiced on
hunters for relics of pile dwellings
One of the accused had invented the
"horn age" for the benefit of an en-
thusiastic antiquarian, and dug out of
him a number Of skillfully prepared
articles of horn. Another fraud con-
sisted of forging the signature OF the
curator of the Archaeological Museum
of Neufchatel and testifying thereby
to the genuineness of shield. The
forgers We're sentenced to terms OF
imprisonment varying from two days to
half year.-Home Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

he vsinly hopes to leave us, Sobbing
sadly in the distance; And when he re-
turns bald-headed, He will hear our
shouts and laughter, AS beneath his
scalp we gather, Drying in our smoky
wigwam, Like hair plaque in our
tepee. We have not forgot how Cortez
Taught our fathers to walk Span
ish, And we have acquired the language,
And ourselves are taking classes.
That's our centuries evolution; That's
the kind of Injuns we are.-B,trdette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18
The Improvement Of City Government

II popular government and universe
suffrage are TO have any real meaning
the people must be placed in a pos
ton to know what is going on; where's
all our present arrangements, whetnsI
by the secrecy of committee-roomS, o
by that of executive officials, who neVe
appear before the public at oil, az
such that the people never know %!
thing of that with respect to which the4
are yet to judge and to decide. In tnl
New England town-meeting, the selecsI
men appear one or twice year oelolI
the whole assembly of the inhabltan,,1
and are cross-questioned by indlvlduala
The test is so severe, and the judgm,ea
follows so swiftly at the elections, tina
corruption and even political lntrlguI
are almost unknown. When acltv y. "
comes too large for such meeting u
change is made to city governmean1
with one or two representative eo1 IN III
In theory these councils should 40 "
work Of the town meeting-thas
watch the course of administrator III
force responsibility, and keep the ps ss
pie informed. In practice, they =
possession of large part OF the aan ~
istration, break up and destroy J..
sponsibility, and effectually coa' 10
both their own doings and those Oh ri
executive. The offset and sateguMu
entrusting extensive powers to mn h;s
is in providing tribunal before WHY ;1r
he and his agents may promptly eaA ;,
and continuously be held tc pnolELI IT,, ~
count. If a body of one or two y .ul
dred men from all parts OF New ln,h]
were to assemble, say once m :n.ar|
being debarred by law from any ln', NJ
ference with administration, HAVING .a n
power to dictate any action or TO , ,s1
any appropriation except upon Pro Iore]
of the executive, but with fun P v,,o]
of suggestion, of criticism. and OF ' ":sy1
if the mayor and his chief officials W. w. a
to appear publicly before this 0o1 1sn d
each session to submit their p.'I d
answer questions, and ask Tor Su tscsl1
money, the people would be perle..,n33|
able to judge of the character tnres1
actions Of their servants, and to eSpl mi
their opinions at the polls. :, I nnirer,s1
not till then, can we hold UNI ~ aov1
sn rage RESPONSIBLE for failures o. n
ernm :ni.-Gamaliel Braa1o'"'
Scrtner's Mdgazir'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18
Paying His Own Way.

One of the boys at the Bryan, Texas
agricultural and mechanical COLLEGE
has been paying his own way by work
ing on farm. A few weeks ago he
found that he must abandon his duties
for time or run in debt. Some of
the other boys learned OF the situa-
ton, put their heads and pocket
books together, raised 800 and loaned
it to him for six years without inter
est They also voted that the money,
when repaid, should be left with the
treasurer of the college as per-
manent loaning fund for use in similar
cases. Cleveland Leader.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

LOUISE MICHEL, the famous French
communist, is said to have crossed the
boundary into insanity, or, at least into
alteration. Her publishers are re-
iusing to print her books, her health is
broken, and she is, it is said, likely to
b left to starve if her pen and tongue
fail her. AS rule, except in revolu-
6onary districts, she is now hooted at
aud i'll treated, it is said, when she
xneaks
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

The Mississippi River is unab le to
hold its own in competition with the
railroads. The New Orleans Times
Democrat says that city, which form
erly derived immense advantages from
its location at the mouth of the great
estuary, is becoming more and more q
railroad town. The old system of wa
ter transportation afforded the city
far more profit, but it is dead and gone,
and it is impossible to recall it. The
2Smes says: ave must conform our
selves to the new methods, to smaller
margin of profits, to railroads. and
all the new ways of doing business.
The receipts and shipments by rail,
river, and ocean to-day, far exceed those
flush days of this city, but we get far
smaller profit from them-a profit I'M
fortunately growing less each year
and we are allowing great deal of
business to pass through the city with
out paying any tribute to it,"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18
Won't Have n Show.

1t was very late and Brown was steer
ing Robinson homeward.
"What will you say to your wife q
Brown asked.
"Not (hic) word" said Robinson.
"Why not?"
II won't have (hic) chance"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

Mrs. HENRY WARD BEEcHER denies
the statement lately made that MIR.
Bcccher was Spiritualist. In re-
cent letter she writes that they fire.
quently attended seances together, but
never saw anything to give them faith
IN spuitualistic manifestations
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

A LAWYER called Loefller, at Loest,
IN Rhenish Prussia, q few weeks ago,
while dressing, cut little pimple from
his lips with a pair of scissors. The
latter were probably not clean, and the
Hip began swelling in few days. Great
pain and fever supervening, a physi-
cian was called in. After weeks of
great suffering the patient died from
blood poisoning. The young man was
enc Of the most promising and es-
Seemed members of the upper circles
Of the city.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

The stage coach that was carrying
5000 from Mazatian to Rosario to pay
tho employees and Miners of the Tajo
Mining Company recently, was halted
By sixteen mon at hill known as
Deyisadora. The sssailants fred a
volley from their rifles, killing woman
aud child, the only passengers in the
coach, and gravely wounding the con-
-,,ctor. After robbing the coach of the
.-lyer. it was permitted to proceed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

BosroN CoRBErr, the slayer of Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of President Lin
ooln, has been taken to the Kansas In
sane Asylum as hopeless lunatic, and
. guardian has been appointed to take
charge of his property.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

A Mrs. Lucy LORD LUTHER, who
died at Hadlyme, Connecticut, the other
day, at the age Of 103, was the Oldest
person on the pension-roll. A New
York paper. abiding to her death, says ::
~The longevity of people who draw pen
sious is beginning to attract attention,
snt the influence of an assured income
ri this sort upon the length of life is q
sabject which deserves thorough in
ves5igation." Data of this kind are
certainly desirable. 1t might indeed
have an important bearing upon future
pension legislation: for no one except
tho most extreme republicans would
care to do anything to prolong the life
Al a professional veteran"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

SHERIDAN Powers was out hunting
in the St. Francis River bottoms, near
Wappapello Mo-, when his attention
vas drawn toward the river by a
strange and peculiar noise. On arriv-
M, on the banks of the river lie discov-
erod two large turtles fighting in shall
low water few yards from the bank.
He watched the battle few minutes,
and until the larger turtle drove his
antagonist from the field, when he
aoveled his fowling piece on the remain
ing one and shot him through the head.
When taken to town and weighed his
saztleship pulled the beam at 100
pounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

The quality of mans Christianity is
tested when he steps on a banana skin.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

One of the most uncertain of all
things is sure thing-of the future.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

AN interesting literary novelty is
Psssnised in Texas. Mr. James e.
GrAde, of Paris, in that State, has made
arrangements to publish all his poems
m volume of more than thousand
pages, with many illustrations. It is
called "Gems of Thought" and will
sontain over forty thousand verses of
poetry on about one thousand different
mblects, with great number of humor-
GUS prose articles on his life, thoughts,
travels and adventures as reporter,
q detective, and Il gentleman Of leisure.
Brother Goode has evidently discharged
agreat variety of functions in life, and
mas thought out an enormous lot of
golden gems.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

D. T. L1rTLER OF the Pacific Rail-
roads Investigating Commission goes
into Western whitehead of anger
whenever mention is made to him of
the charge that the Railroad Commits
sion has been banqueting, wining, and
dining extravagantly at the public ex-
pense. Talking about the matter re-
Gently, he said: "On our Western trip
the only liquor that know anything
about was bottle of whisky that I
bought in Chicago, before started,
and put in my satchel, and q pint flask
that was bought y long time afterward.
The Commission bought no liquors or
wines, they smoked their own cigars,
and they accepted no wines from any
one. While on the Central Pacific
road. where, by the way, we paid our
own fare, two or three lunches were
given us by the Central Pacific officials,
at which some fruit and California
claret were served, the whole of which,
for all the lunches, could not have cost
above $40. The Commission has been
so judicious and careful in it's expendi-
lures that it will be able to pay all its
expenses, including the printing Of its
report and the evidence taken, and
then return o handsome balance into
the Treasury cut of the 100000 APP
propriated for its purpose.
THE returns of the foreign trade of
Great Britain for the last calendar year,
with comparisons extending back as far
as 1882, have been officially published.
The value Of imports was E349, 1863, 472,
which was some G29, 100000 less than
for the previous year, and less in still
larger amount than for any OF the other
three years embraced in the compari-
son. In 1888 the value of imports
reached the large sum of e426, S91, $40,
or upward of EST, 900, 600 more than for
last year. The value in 1888 was equal
to about 50, 100000, which was a
third more than the sum of our imports
and exports. The decrease last year
from 1888, about $435. 100000, was
equal to more than one-half of the total
value of our exports in the year when
they reached the highest point. The
total value of British exports last year
was EGGS, 667.Ol7. This, like the value
of imports, was less than in any one OF
the four preceding years. The largest
total in the table is G303, 66O,714 in
1882. That year the imports exceeded
the exports by more than f106, 600, 900,
or $3.50, 100000. Last year the excess
of imports was about S405, 100000.
These adverse balances" as com
mercial writer's on both sides Of the At
lantic still persists in calling them, are
something prodigious. Still Great
Britain survives.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

that drummer get even. They have
filed the hotel and gone to work on
the private houses, and now Palestine
is accursed with them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

The process Of the Welding invented
by Mr.. De Benardoz, of Russia is now
spilled industrially by the Society for
tLe Electrical Working OF Metals. The
pieces TO be welded are placed upon
east-iron plate supported by an in
snlated table and connected with a neg
alive pole of a source Of electricity.
The positive pole communicates with
IN electric carbon inserted in an in
sulating handle. On drawing the point
Of the carbon along the edges of the
metal to be welded the operator closes
the circuit. He has then merely to
raise the point slightly to produce a
voltaic arc whose high temperature
Helts the two pieces of metal and
causes them to unite.
A DRUMMER had spite at hotel in
Palestine, Texas. and resolved on a
terrible revenge. So when he went to
Galveston he Gagged" lot of the
sockroaches for which the island city is
celebrated. Bringing lot of the
gargest commonly called by native
Gnlvestonians "diggerloogers," the
drummer took them to the hotel and
1urned them loose in the halls and cor
riaors In about two weeks the hotel
vas swarming with them, and they got
u the soups, preserves, jams, molasses,
IN the milk-everywhere-and worked
Aard all day and sat up at night to help
Connecticut western news., 1887-01-05
ELLSWORTH.

Sunday and Monday were tho coldesi of the season so far by the thermometer We had pretty good sleighing Frida. but the rain Saturday morning took ! good share of 1t off. .
 Town meeting Monday. January 3d Rev Mir Muller, who filed the pulpi of the Congregational church so accept. able last summer, has occupied the sam, place for the last two Sundays. Mr. Muller came with him and they havt been spending the holidays with some of their many friends in this place. Mrs Harmon Skiff of Cheshire, Conn was buried from the Methodist churcl in this place. Tuesday. December 18th, Rev Mir. Bourne officiating.
 The delegation from Dakota reached home a week ago, safe and sound. Nh Herbert Chaffee and Walter Reed gre attending Oberlin college this winter, but expect to return to Dakota in the spring.
 At the auction sale of the Everet property, Mr Will Everett purchased the farm for S1.000.
 Mir E. J. Per Lee and family and Nh J. H. Per Lee of Sharon, spent New Years day with Mir and Mrs F. $. Dun. bar of this place.
 A friend from New Jersey is spending a week with Mrs Daniel Brown of this place.
 Christm passed off with the usual annual slaughter of poultry, etc, and occasional Christmas tree.